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    are many freedoms And rights granted to us,some of which were fought for such as the first few amendments after we,The US beat the British or when women finally were allowed to vote.Even fighting against discriminatory laws put in place by racist people like blacks being told to celebrate the emancipation of the US from the British when the blacks were still slaves to the whites.But during the 1800’s some of these rights and amendments were kept from immigrants and slaves,even basic human kindness was kept from them as they were looked down on as inferior races to the whites,that notion was proven wrong as you’ll find as you read this essay. An example of these freedoms and the inequality shown in the minority classes is the historical narrative “Building The Transcontinental Railroad” by Iris Chang.The story focuses on the building of the railroad to which it gets its name in its name, as well the treatment and part that the Chinese immigrants had in its creation which,despite what the people of the time would tell you,was major as Chang describes throughout the reading.Chang start off by quoting “America The Beautiful” and stating the mindset of the time, which was the belief of Manifest Destiny,the belief of expansion the…

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    changed. He even claims that he is unable to read even a blog post of more than “three or four paragraphs” and instead opts to “skim it.” Bruce Friedman seems like someone with serious attention and reading habits issues. But it only it were so. I can feel Bruce putting my own thoughts and experiences, and perhaps those of many others, in words. In his coup de grace, Carr seems to be winning the argument. But he digresses. Seemingly. He enters the field of neurology, grappling with the…

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    they formed limestone before and took the path of the air. The carbon traveled with the wind and then it “stumbled into capture and the organic adventure”. (Levi 384) The atom entered the leaf, experiencing some chemical reactions and finally enters the “chain of life”. Then carbon dioxide is brought to the stage, which constitutes the raw material of life and “is subjected to complicated exchanges and balances with the water in which it is dissolved”. (Levi 386) Thus carbon is destined to…

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    journey. Pepe is a man now. He has a man’s thing to do,” (Steinbeck, 6). As a man, he is expected to go away after killing man. The author notes a change in Pepe after he kills a man. “His mouth was less full than it had been, the lines of the lip were straighter, but in his eyes the greatest change had taken place. There was no laughter in them anymore, nor any bashfulness. They were sharp and bright and purposeful,” (Steinbeck, 4-5). The event has stripped him of his child-like features that…

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